Northwestern Frontier Army

Aside from the first day he arrived at the military camp, Wu, the Garrison Captain, never showed his face in front of the new recruits again.

A garrison captain was a sixth-rank military officer in Great Yan's official hierarchy.

He was in charge of a city's defenses, a responsibility of great importance.

In Great Yan, the garrison captains of several major cities could often be considered Subordinate Fifth Rank officials.

These newly recruited soldiers drilled every day on the training ground alongside the garrison troops stationed in Xingyuan City.

In truth, the old soldiers in Xingyuan City weren't much stronger than the farmers who had just been recruited.

By now, Great Yan's elite forces were concentrated almost entirely in the Six Camps, the emperor's Imperial Guard, and the Northwestern Frontier Army.

Aside from the major cities, the garrisons in most of Great Yan's cities were little more than men passing their days.

The new recruits' training was simple.

Beyond basic physical conditioning, they learned the fundamentals: how to hold a spear, how to shoot a bow, and so on.

But Squad Leader Huang also secretly gave Chen Yan some extra lessons.

Squad Leader Huang told Chen Yan that one man alone couldn't change anything on the battlefield.

He taught Chen Yan how to play dead.

Rather than die for nothing beneath the barbarians' curved blades, he should find a way to survive the battlefield.

Keeping himself alive was what mattered most.

Chen Yan offered no opinion on the matter. He simply did as he was told.

In the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.

Wu, the Garrison Captain, received an order from the Ministry of War instructing him to divide the newly recruited soldiers into three tiers.

The first tier consisted of those who performed